People are apt to make change decisions – real shifts – only if uncomfortable with their current position

The author recounts the tragedy of truth-telling in consulting.

Profiling is often unconscious and instinctual, our limbic survival mechanism for the jungles and urban back alleys.

Our new understanding of brain development can helps us better discern the child’s natural cognitive and behavioral inclinations, and therefore how to harmonize their emotions, logical models.

…If (a) the sensory signal patterns have not roused the front-line emotional guards, and (b) the brain decides there’s time for a more deliberate analysis, then the patterns are sent up to the rational PFC (prefrontal cortex) tecchie upstairs, which keeps a library of models of cool logic, abstracted from knowledge and experience…

Decisions, Execution and Deliverables This series targets three topics (decision making, strategic execution, and project management).  You will also find links to thinkers, books, tools and other resources. Looking at the recent years’ book releases, we see a shifting from rigidly closed decision and management models, to open-ended approaches and analytical tools. Why?  Information now [...]